Honzo October 26th, 2005

Finish the job. Don’t cut and run.

Something else worth reading: Are the Statistics or Heros?

The problem is that to truly honor something means, by
definition, to hold it in high respect and esteem. Members of the media
may hold the sacrifices of individual soldiers in esteem but it’s fair
to say that, as a whole, they have significantly less respect for or
belief in the causes for which those soldiers are fighting and dying in
Iraq. The result is that much of the mainstream media can’t separate
the men from the mission, and feel that to write positive stories about
Iraq or stories truly honoring our soldiers would be seen as propaganda
supporting the policy (and indirectly the President)….

…The left will say this is propaganda from a right-wing rag. But
the one striking difference between the Post and the rest is that at
least The Post is willing to treat our dead soldiers as “heroes.” The
New York Times had no problem writing exhaustively about the heroes of
9/11, but when it comes to Iraq all we get are body counts.

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